There was a lot of crowing by the anti-union crowd just a day ago with the interim decision. Regardless of how this works out in the end, I think this whole episode has made clear if it wasn’t already that the majority of EV buyers and enthusiasts, being upper income people, are remarkably anti-union.
It is truly baffling how people consider the actions of a bunch of rich people (i.e. management at a company) to be justified in anything they do. You will hear the line “They have an obligation to their stockholders”, or just “It’s their money, they can do what they want with it,” in pretty much any scenario where a business does something negative for society or the world at large.
But the second a bunch of workers exercise the absolutely most basic right there is in a free market, that of not working, they are excoriated by these same people. Some of the attitudes in the last thread were as though these workers were withholding medicine for orphans, not just choosing to not work for a company openly hostile to them. Again, Tesla has chosen to do business a certain way, and the workers are choosing to respond. You can debate the legality of both sides however much you want, but it is ridiculous how people put moral judgements out there as if Tesla is owed the labor of Swedish workers.
The hilarious part of this is that of all the striking unions, the postal service is the one that they’ve decided to complain the most about - if I were them, I’d be worrying about companies like Hydro Extrusions, who are the only supplier in Europe for the parts they supply to Giga Berlin, and have announced they’re going to stop production for Tesla this Friday.
It seems we’re swiftly moving from “fuck around” to the “find out” phase.
You have to understand that TSLA shareholders a very vocal part of this community. If you look at the post history of the anti-union commentators, there is almost always some connection to other Tesla shareholding communities.
These people aren’t anti-union because they have deeply held ideological beliefs regarding socioeconomics; they are people with a clear and direct motivation to support Tesla’s profit margin by supporting whatever position is most convenient at the time. There is no separating their belief system from that of the business itself.
I think this whole episode has made clear if it wasn’t already that the majority of EV buyers and enthusiasts, being upper income people, are remarkably anti-union.
I mean that’s the case with Sweden too. Tesla is the most popular EV - by far - in Sweden, so clearly its consumers don’t care about unions either and hence the “boot wearers” term.
There was a lot of crowing by the anti-union crowd just a day ago with the interim decision. Regardless of how this works out in the end, I think this whole episode has made clear if it wasn’t already that the majority of EV buyers and enthusiasts, being upper income people, are remarkably anti-union.
It is truly baffling how people consider the actions of a bunch of rich people (i.e. management at a company) to be justified in anything they do. You will hear the line “They have an obligation to their stockholders”, or just “It’s their money, they can do what they want with it,” in pretty much any scenario where a business does something negative for society or the world at large.
But the second a bunch of workers exercise the absolutely most basic right there is in a free market, that of not working, they are excoriated by these same people. Some of the attitudes in the last thread were as though these workers were withholding medicine for orphans, not just choosing to not work for a company openly hostile to them. Again, Tesla has chosen to do business a certain way, and the workers are choosing to respond. You can debate the legality of both sides however much you want, but it is ridiculous how people put moral judgements out there as if Tesla is owed the labor of Swedish workers.
The hilarious part of this is that of all the striking unions, the postal service is the one that they’ve decided to complain the most about - if I were them, I’d be worrying about companies like Hydro Extrusions, who are the only supplier in Europe for the parts they supply to Giga Berlin, and have announced they’re going to stop production for Tesla this Friday.
It seems we’re swiftly moving from “fuck around” to the “find out” phase.
You have to understand that TSLA shareholders a very vocal part of this community. If you look at the post history of the anti-union commentators, there is almost always some connection to other Tesla shareholding communities.
These people aren’t anti-union because they have deeply held ideological beliefs regarding socioeconomics; they are people with a clear and direct motivation to support Tesla’s profit margin by supporting whatever position is most convenient at the time. There is no separating their belief system from that of the business itself.
American EV buyers.
I mean that’s the case with Sweden too. Tesla is the most popular EV - by far - in Sweden, so clearly its consumers don’t care about unions either and hence the “boot wearers” term.